Sometime last year there was a guest entry in our Guestbook
by V.K. Deshpande that referred my father as "KL". I'd never heard that before, and obviously it conveyed a close
friendship. So I contacted him.

Estimated 200,000 photographs of India -- that is more than ten photographs taken everyday of the year, for fifty years !

Twenty-two published books in Kannada covering different regions of India and discussing contemporary social life

Estimated two hundred articles published in popular, and scholarly periodicals

Over a thousand hand-drawn illustrations of hard-to-photograph topics, notes spread in twenty diaries

All this was done by one poor man without a job (Dr. Deshpande's assertion that Kamat did not find employment in India is true. It is perhaps also true that Kamat lived poor by choice), or any institutional help.